Denis Gebauer

9.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
114 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Denis Gebauer is a scholar working on Biomaterials, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Denis Gebauer has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Biomaterials, 40 papers in Materials Chemistry and 27 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Denis Gebauer's work include Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition (88 papers), Crystallization and Solubility Studies (28 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (26 papers). Denis Gebauer is often cited by papers focused on Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition (88 papers), Crystallization and Solubility Studies (28 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (26 papers). Denis Gebauer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and Sweden. Denis Gebauer's co-authors include Helmut Cölfen, Antje Völkel, Julian D. Gale, Matthias Kellermeier, Lennart Bergström, Paolo Raiteri, Andreas Verch, Raffaella Demichelis, David Quigley and Markus Antonietti and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Denis Gebauer

111 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Hit Papers

Stable Prenucleation Calc... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2014 2011 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Stable Prenucleation Calcium Carbonate Clusters
    2008 1.3k citations Denis Gebauer, Helmut Cölfen et al. profile →
  2. Pre-nucleation clusters as solute precursors in crystallisation
    2014 804 citations Denis Gebauer, Matthias Kellermeier et al. profile →
  3. Prenucleation clusters and non-classical nucleation
    2011 537 citations Denis Gebauer, Helmut Cölfen profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Denis Gebauer 4.8k 2.8k 2.0k 1.2k 793 114 7.6k
Patricia M. Dove 4.9k 1.0× 2.7k 1.0× 1.8k 0.9× 1.5k 1.3× 881 1.1× 86 11.0k
Benjamin Gilbert 4.5k 0.9× 5.5k 2.0× 3.1k 1.6× 1.7k 1.5× 547 0.7× 146 12.8k
S. L. S. Stipp 2.6k 0.5× 1.3k 0.5× 1.3k 0.6× 640 0.6× 478 0.6× 204 9.0k
François Guyot 1.3k 0.3× 1.9k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 915 0.8× 778 1.0× 291 13.0k
Fiona C. Meldrum 7.9k 1.7× 5.6k 2.0× 4.5k 2.2× 1.9k 1.7× 1.0k 1.3× 188 15.8k
D. L. Bish 2.4k 0.5× 2.9k 1.0× 609 0.3× 741 0.6× 1.1k 1.4× 283 11.1k
Brigid R. Heywood 2.4k 0.5× 1.4k 0.5× 1.3k 0.6× 490 0.4× 431 0.5× 71 5.0k
Huifang Xu 1.1k 0.2× 3.8k 1.3× 1.5k 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 1.2k 1.5× 257 10.7k
Gordon E. Brown 1.5k 0.3× 5.9k 2.1× 1.6k 0.8× 534 0.5× 412 0.5× 167 13.4k
Andreas Lüttge 1.4k 0.3× 1.7k 0.6× 920 0.5× 308 0.3× 216 0.3× 102 6.8k

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All Works

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Cho, Young Shin, et al.. (2025). Control of Hydroxyapatite Mineralization in an Orthogonal Diffusion System. Crystal Growth & Design. 25(9). 2960–2969. 2 indexed citations
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Smith, Albert A., et al.. (2025). Investigation of the structure and dynamics of amorphous calcium carbonate by NMR: stabilization by poly-aspartate and comparison to monohydrocalcite. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27(19). 10348–10363. 1 indexed citations
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Thome, Fabian, et al.. (2024). Broadband G-Band GaN Digital Step Attenuators. FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg). 438–441.
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Gebauer, Denis, et al.. (2024). Colloidal pathways of amorphous calcium carbonate formation lead to distinct water environments and conductivity. Nature Communications. 15(1). 80–80. 9 indexed citations
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Gebauer, Denis, et al.. (2023). Bottling Liquid‐Like Minerals for Advanced Materials Synthesis. Advanced Materials. 35(25). e2300702–e2300702. 8 indexed citations
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Peter, Christine, et al.. (2022). On the Binding Mechanisms of Calcium Ions to Polycarboxylates: Effects of Molecular Weight, Side Chain, and Backbone Chemistry. Langmuir. 38(47). 14409–14421. 16 indexed citations
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Dong, Liang, Yunjun Xu, Yang Zhao, et al.. (2022). Highly hydrated paramagnetic amorphous calcium carbonate nanoclusters as an MRI contrast agent. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5088–5088. 53 indexed citations
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Drechsler, Markus, A. Kempter, Alexander E. S. Van Driessche, et al.. (2022). New insights into the nucleation of magnesium hydroxide and the influence of poly(acrylic acid) during the early stages of Mg(OH)2 crystallisation. CrystEngComm. 24(44). 7718–7726. 9 indexed citations
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Lü, Hao, et al.. (2021). Role of Water in CaCO3Biomineralization. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(4). 1758–1762. 35 indexed citations
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Gebauer, Denis, et al.. (2021). Three Reasons Why Aspartic Acid and Glutamic Acid Sequences Have a Surprisingly Different Influence on Mineralization. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 125(36). 10335–10343. 23 indexed citations
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Ruiz‐Agudo, Cristina, et al.. (2019). Ubiquitin Designer Proteins as a New Additive Generation toward Controlling Crystallization. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(31). 12240–12245. 11 indexed citations
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Rao, Ashit, et al.. (2018). On mechanisms of mesocrystal formation: magnesium ions and water environments regulate the crystallization of amorphous minerals. CrystEngComm. 20(31). 4395–4405. 24 indexed citations
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Gebauer, Denis, Kjell Jansson, Mikael Oliveberg, & Niklas Hedin. (2018). Indications that Amorphous Calcium Carbonates Occur in Pathological Mineralisation—A Urinary Stone from a Guinea Pig. Minerals. 8(3). 84–84. 5 indexed citations
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Jain, Gaurav, et al.. (2017). A Model Sea Urchin Spicule Matrix Protein, rSpSM50, Is a Hydrogelator That Modifies and Organizes the Mineralization Process. Biochemistry. 56(21). 2663–2675. 19 indexed citations
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Jiang, Yuan, Matthias Kellermeier, Denis Gebauer, et al.. (2017). Growth of organic crystals via attachment and transformation of nanoscopic precursors. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15933–15933. 40 indexed citations
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Gebauer, Denis, et al.. (2015). The Role of Chloride Ions during the Formation of Akaganéite Revisited. Minerals. 5(4). 778–787. 28 indexed citations

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